by Mark Duggan | Sep 25, 2021
Photography by Mark Duggan The Mancos Common Press is a working educational letterpress studio in southwest Colorado. It’s also a printing museum, operating out of the old newspaper building. Hundreds of printing blocks and type are found among the displays,...
by Mark Duggan | May 1, 2020
Humanity is no stranger to pandemics. The 1918-1919 influenza known as the Spanish Flu infected 500 million people – or about a third of the world’s population at the time. Another viral outbreak, though less severe, came just a decade later. Ebola, H2N2,...
by Mark Duggan | Feb 12, 2019
Fort Lewis College history professor Andrew Gulliford talks about President Teddy Roosevelt’s time on Colorado’s Western Slope, particularly around Rifle and Glenwood Springs. The nation’s 26th president hunted in the Divide Creek area and stayed at the Hotel Colorado...
by Mark Duggan | May 29, 2017
The Center of Southwest Studies website immediately gives a sense of the organization’s sizeable regional scope, from the logo image of the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix to the historic mining photographs of Ouray and Silverton, Colo. Clicking around, you’ll...
by Mark Duggan | Jun 30, 2014
Tucson, Ariz. – When the San Manuel Mine northeast of Tucson closed in 1999, it was the largest underground copper mine in the U.S., with more than 2,000 people working in 350+ miles of tunnels and a nearby smelter. The copper market had just gone bust,...
by Mark Duggan | May 29, 2014
Tucson, Ariz. – The names stand out on early maps of the Arizona Territory: Hamlets like Ruby and Silver Bell. Mines named The World’s Fair, Old Dominion, and The Heavy Weight. But they’re not to be found on modern maps of Arizona. When the copper booms...
